Caribbean Victims Of 9/11 ‘Live’ On At Memorial Pools

The names of the Caribbean victims of September 11, 2001, ‘live’ on, on the bronze parapets surrounding the Memorial pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in downtown Manhattan.

News Americas, NY, NY, Fri. Sept. 11, 2015: Today, as many across the US pause to mark the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, many of the names of the Caribbean victims of September 11, 2001, ‘live’ on, on the bronze parapets surrounding the Memorial pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in downtown Manhattan.

The names of the estimated 63 known Caribbean nationals are displayed among the nearly 3,000 names of the men, women, and children killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993.

Names are stencil-cut into the parapets, allowing visitors to look through the names at the water, and to create paper impressions or rubbings of individual names. At night, light shines up through the voids created by each letter of a name.

The design of the names parapet provides a direct relationship between a visitor, the names, and the water, allowing for a feeling of quiet reverence between the visitor and the Memorial.

Those visiting the museum also enter an exhibition along a corridor in which portrait photographs of the nearly 3,000 victims form a “Wall of Faces,” communicating the scale of human loss.

Nearby, touch screen tables allow visitors to discover additional information about each person, including photographs, images of objects and audio remembrances by family, friends and coworkers. Rotating selections of personal artifacts are also featured. An inner chamber presents profiles of individual victims in a dignified sequence through photographs, biographical information and audio recordings.

The known Caribbean victims of 9/11 listed at the memorial are as follows per country:

Guyana

Nezam A. Hafiz

Eustace R. Bacchus

Kris Romeo Bishundat

Annette Andrea Dataram

Ricknauth Jaggernauth

Sarah Khan

Amarnauth Lachhman

Amenia Rasool

Sita Nermalla Sewnarine

Hardai Parbhu

Jamaica

Delrose E. Forbes Cheatham

Joyce Smith

Vaswald George Hall

Derrick Auther Green

Joan Donna Griffith

Courtney Wainsworth Walcott

John Sylvester White

Lloyd Stanford Brown

Kerene Gordon

Denise Marie Gregory

Michael Richards

Venesha Orintia Richards

Antigua & Barbuda

Albert Gunnis Joseph

Emelda Perry

Catherina Henry-Robinson

Barbados

Colin Arthur Bonnett

Pauline Francis

Melissa Renée Vincent

Dominica

Fitzroy St. Rose

Lucy Francis

Haiti

Mark Y. Gilles

Andre Bonheur, Jr.

Francois Jean-Pierre

Trinidad and Tobago

Rena Sam Dinnoo

Winston Arthur Grant

Stephen Joseph

Glenroy I. Neblett

Boyie Mohammed

Clara Victorine Hinds

Anthony Portillo

Goumatie Thackurdeen

Puerto Rico

Edna Cintron

Rosa J. Gonzalez

Alexis Leduc

Ivan Vale

Santos Valentin Jr.

Peter Vega

Norberto Hernandez

Diana B. Padro

Carmen Milagros Rodriguez

Sonia Mercedes Morales Puopolo

Carlos Segarra

Angel M. Pabon, Jr.

Victor Daniel Barbosa

Carlos R. Lillo

Juan Nieves Jr.

Waleska Martinez

Paul DeCola, Matthew Diaz
Milagros Hromada

Isaias Rivera

Linda Ivelisse RiveraIvan Antonio Perez

Grenada

Jeffrey G. La Touche

Bermuda

Kevin Patrick York

Rhondelle Cherie Tankard

The 2015 September 11, 2001 anniversary ceremony begins at 8:40 a.m. today and the first moment of silence will be held at 8:46 a.m., marking the time Flight 11 struck the North Tower.

At 3 p.m., the 9/11 Memorial will be open to the public for a special viewing of the Tribute in Light on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Tribute in Light will illuminate the New York City sky just south of the Memorial site.

Meanwhile, Pope Francis will visit the National September 11 Memorial & Museum as part of the pontiff’s first trip to America.

On Sept. 25, Pope Francis will visit the 9/11 Memorial and pay his respects to the nearly 3,000 victims.

After seeing the Memorial, the Pope will lead a Multi-religious Meeting for Peace inside the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where he will gather with local representatives of the world religions to give a common witness to peace. The program will include an address by the Pope, prayers and meditations from various religious traditions.